BENEFITS
These plans enable individual employees to choose the benefits that are best suited to their particular needs
What are flexible benefit plans?
Unlimited medical aid, along with vocational rehabilitation, which includes physical, social, and psychological services are all examples of this.
What is WSIB support for workers injured on the job?
Medical benefits, Dental, Optical, Wellness programs, Employee assistance (mental health) programs are all examples of what?
What are major discretionary benefits?
These plans of action prevent accidents or occupational diseases.
What is a safety program?
These plans of action encourage the health and wellness of employees.
What is a Health Program?
This makes is possible for employees to gather information about their benefits plans, enroll in their plans of choice, change their benefits coverage, or simply inquire about the status of their various benefits accounts, without ever contacting the plan administrator.
What is an Employee Self-Service System? or
What is an HRIS System?
A program that assigns a case manager who works with the employer and the employee to return the employee to work – same or modified – as soon as possible is called this.
What is the WSIB Work Re-Integration Program?
Vacations with pay, Paid (Statutory) holidays, Sick leave, and Severance pay are all examples of what?
What is Pay for Time Not Worked?
Any abnormal condition or disorder caused by the work environment.
What is an occupational illness?
Cumulative trauma disorders, computer workstation issues, visual difficulties; muscular aches and pains; job stress, Chemical hazards, Smoking and tobacco smoke.
What are Health Hazards?
Increased deductibles, dollar limits, coverage changes, benefit caps, preferred providers, retendering are all examples of what?
What are cost containment strategies?
A disease resulting from exposure to a substance relating to a particular process, trade, or occupation in industry.
What is an industrial disease?
Seminars and Workshops where lecturers, videos, and printed materials cover topics such as how to live on a reduced, fixed income and how to cope with lost prestige, family conflict, and idleness are examples of this type of program.
What are pre-retirement programs?
A committee that includes representatives from management, each department or manufacturing/service unit, and employee representatives that promotes safety awareness.
What is an Employee-Management Safety Committee? or
What is a Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee?
A negative emotional state marked by symptoms of low spirits, gloominess, and loss of pleasure in ordinary activities.
What is depression?
Canada and Quebec Pension Plans (CPP/QPP), Employment Insurance (EI), Workers’ Compensation Insurance, and Provincial hospital and medical services are all examples of what?
What are legally required benefits?
Any cut, fracture, sprain, or amputation resulting from a workplace accident.
What is an Occupational Injury?
Employees who change jobs are now able to maintain equity in a single pension because of this ability.
What is pension portability?
Threatening behaviour, verbal or written threats, harassing behaviour that demeans, embarrasses, or humiliates, verbal abuse, or physical attacks that occur in the workplace are this.
What is Workplace Violence?
Layoffs and organizational restructuring; disagreements with managers or fellow employees; prejudice because of age, gender, race, or religion; inability to voice complaints; and poor working conditions.
What are job stressors? or
What are issues that result in job stress?
Medical benefits, Dental, Optical, Wellness programs, Employee assistance (mental health) programs are all examples of what?
What are major discretionary benefits?
Physical injuries leading to mental disabilities, Mental stress resulting in a physical disability, and Mental stress resulting in a mental condition are examples of this.
What are WSIB Stress-related Claims?
This benefit is determined according to a predefined formula and the amount is usually based on the employee’s years of service, average earnings during a specific period of time, and age at the time of retirement.
What is a defined-benefit retirement plan?
An unforeseen situation that threatens employees, customers, or the public; disrupts or shuts down operations; or causes physical or environmental damage.
What is a Workplace Emergency?
Unwanted and ongoing negative actions of one or more persons against another within the workplace.
What is workplace bullying?